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I love it when I find a turtle balancing on its plastron. This one isn't very big which is typical of males, ditto for the longer claws.
Check out my blog post for more turtle info & tid bits - wickeddarkphotography.com/2020/11/01/turtles-all-the-way-...
I have just had my camera body, extender and lens matched by the UK Canon Service Centre. I am very pleased with the improvement.
A highlight of graduation week at the US Naval Academy each year is a performance by the Blue Angels--a flight demonstration squadron comprised of both Navy and Marine aviators. This 2007 photo was taken during my son's graduation.
7DWF - Theme: "Order"
Fog and dew this morning—almost as shot except for slight curves. That's all white dewy web behind the foreground web, suspended from a stick across wet grass. Busy little spider.
Inspired by Flickr Friday's #Precision theme.
Nikon D810, Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR
1/200 sec; f/9; ISO 400
Manual exposure, yoga mat. wet elbows
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Probably oil-filled gear case until taken apart for this exhibit.
National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, Ontario. A wide ranging collection, including an outdoor section. Needs a good half day.
Lins and I love Old Bay seasoned boiled shrimp and it's usually a Friday night thing for us. A couple dozen boiled shrimp and some awesome 'fancy' sweet tea.....mostly sweet tea vodka and a wee amount of tea, but it's good!!! Come on FRIDAY!!!
The early morning glow of golden hour lighting up a Variable Oystercatcher hunting for shellfish at low tide.
Northbound UP MASCH freight is a few miles north of Villa Grove with four units on the head end. Thanks to Union Pacific's glorious "precision" railroading plan, the first and last units of this train are on the chopping block. In the near future, instead of four units on a train, it'll most likely be one!
This weeks Macro Monday theme - Hand tool
(precision cross head screwdriver)
Watchmaker, watchmaker, make me a watch
Make time go slower but never let it stop
And speed up the ticking when the going gets rough,
'Cause to me all this trying it'll never be enough.
Mamiya 645 1000s : 150mm Mamiya-Sekor f/3.5 : Ilford HP5 Plus : Pyrocat HD
First frames from a new-to-me 150mm lens for the Mamiya 645's. In my experience these Mamiya-Sekor lenses are unfailingly excellent, and this one is no exception...
In this image, fire is not wild or chaotic. It is focused, refined — tamed. The blue flame rises with quiet intensity, a product of complete combustion, of chemistry done right. It speaks of fire not as destruction, but as a tool. A companion to human progress.
Fire, one of the oldest elements we’ve harnessed, lives at the intersection of nature and technology. From ancient campfires to the tip of a blowtorch, it remains essential. This single blue flame — nearly silent, nearly invisible in daylight — can melt metal, shape glass, or seal connections that hold our modern world together.
Yet, behind its calm form lies potential for chaos. The contrast between flame and darkness in this frame reminds us: fire’s gift is always conditional. Control it, and it builds. Lose control, and it consumes.
Here, the element of fire is captured in a moment of discipline.
Not a wildfire, not a candle — but a tool in hand. A spark of precision.
And still, it holds all the power of its untamed ancestors.
Fun facts about Fire:
🔥 Blue flame = hotter flame
A blue flame like this one is typically hotter than a yellow/orange one. It indicates complete combustion, meaning fuel is being burned efficiently.
🔥 Fire needs three things: The "fire triangle" consists of heat, fuel, and oxygen. Remove one, and the flame dies.
🔥 It’s plasma, not just gas:
Though it looks like a glowing gas, fire is actually a form of plasma — the fourth state of matter!
🔥 No gravity? No flame shape.
In zero gravity, fire burns in a blue spherical blob because there’s no convection to draw the flame upward.
🔥 Ancient symbol of life and destruction:
Across cultures, fire is a paradox — both a giver of life (warmth, cooking, light) and a force of destruction.
A hand pan or hang drum. The process starts with a flat disc of steel, manually hammered into a smooth shell, much like a large cooking wok. Then precise dimples are added, and – with even greater precision – the steel is minutely stretched and compressed and manipulated with the precise skill of a studied craftsman and the trained ear of an experienced musician. Eventually, after heat treatments and fine tuning, the top half is glued to a bottom half to create an instrument with such ethereal sonic beauty the angels show up to dance and laugh.
See below for some additional photos of Logan rough tuning the top half of this hand pan in process.
Quando si dice preciso come un'orologio svizzero si esalta una innata qualità del popolo d'oltralpe, che anche in campo ferroviario traspare, poi però basta respirare aria nostrana ed ecco che tutti i buoni propositi vanno a farsi friggere... infatti il Giruno svizzero che effettua il nuovo servizio Zurigo - Genova si trova a passare nella stazione di Villalvernia durante il viaggio di ritorno con una bell'oretta di ritardo. Ecco il RABe 501.006 di SBB mentre espleta l'EC 308 Genova P.P. - Zurigo transitando bello veloce nella stazione di Villalvernia e strombazzando all'infreddolito fotografo
Even though my father never was a professional woodworker, he had learned being a wheelwright at a young age and continued thriving in working with wood as a hobby for decades.
I must have gotten the knack for this craft while spending time with him in his tiny woodshop, because the passion for woodworking has fiercely gotten to me those last few years.
I've chosen a few of the tools he owned (and that I cherish, maintain and use) for this week's "Macro Mondays" challenge.
The divider caliper, or simply divider (compas in French) can be used to precisely report any distance from one piece to an other, without needing to measure that distance. Actually, measuring is more prone to errors and approximations. The tool can be used to divide a line into segments of equal lengths, hence the name. A set of two dividers can be used to lay out dovetails that will be perfectly identical to each other, without having to measure and calculate the width of pins and tails.
One important principle of woodworking is that precision is more important than accuracy. This means that the exact number of millimeters or degrees a piece of wood is cut at doesn't matter that much. What matters is the perfect match between the various pieces that have to come together. The divider surely helps in this endeavor.